Ladies Set to Face Belhaven On Saturday At Home
The Centenary women's basketball team welcomes the Belhaven University Blazers to town for a non-conference contest set for a 1 p.m. tip at the Gold Dome.
Shreveport – The Centenary women's basketball team welcomes the Belhaven University Blazers to town for a non-conference contest set for a 1 p.m. tip at the Gold Dome.
The Ladies (1-3) lost 50-36 to Millsaps College on Tuesday in a non-conference road game. Belhaven (3-1) fell 75-61 at UT Dallas on Thursday evening. The teams will meet for the first time since the Blazers recorded a 106-58 win during the 2019-20 season in Jackson, Miss.
Live stats and live video will be available for Saturday's game at the links below:
Stats: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2021-22/boxscores/20211120_jdx1.xml
Video: https://collegetvticket.com/event/centenary-womens-basketball-vs-belhaven-university/
Centenary, which opened its season with a 69-64 comeback win over LeTourneau at home on Nov. 5, aims to snap a three-game losing streak as the Ladies dropped a pair of home games last weekend, 71-56 to Louisiana Christian University and 58-52 against Hendrix College before the loss earlier this week to the Majors.
Freshman G Mary Leday (Opelousas, La.) scored a season-high 11 points to lead the Ladies in scoring versus Millsaps. She played 33 minutes and made 5-7 field goal attempts and grabbed three rebounds. She added a pair of steals and had one assist as she reached double figures for the second time this season. Freshman G Dymon Drumgo (Alexandria, La.) also scored a season-high number of points and joined Leday in double figures as she posted 10 points on 3-7 shooting in 18 minutes. Drumgo added four rebounds, a blocked shot, and went 4-6 from the free throw line.
Junior F Jazzmyn Jones (Normangee, Texas) chipped in eight points in a team-high eight rebounds in 30 minutes. She shot 3-12 from the floor and had five steals, two blocks, and an assist. Sophomore guard Addy Tremie (Sulphur, La.), freshman G Alana Jones (Shreveport), and senior guard Jennae Mayberry (Clovis, Calif.) each scored two points and Tremie added four rebounds, two steals, an assist, and a blocked shot. Mayberry grabbed five rebounds and blocked a shot and Jones had three rebounds.
The Ladies shot 25 % overall (14-56) for the game from the field but were on target in the second quarter, making 6-14 (42.9%) for their best shooting effort in a period on the night. Centenary collected 30 rebounds and tallied 12 steals, five blocks, and three assists.
The game featured four lead changes and was tied five times. Each team scored 20 points in the paint and second-chance points were nearly even as the Majors scored 12 to the Ladies' eight. Centenary turned the ball over 17 times and the Majors gave it up 21 times. Millsaps scored 19 points off of turnovers while the Ladies notched 14.
The Majors held a slight edge after a low-scoring first quarter, 9-7, and then each team scored 15 points apiece in the second period as Millsaps took a 24-22 lead to the halftime locker room. The Majors outscored the Ladies 11-8 in the third quarter and then finished off the win with a 15-6 margin in the final period.
Jones is averaging a team-high 13.3 points per game and is shooting 48.8 % from the floor. Tremie averages 9.5 PPG and 4.5 rebounds per game. Leday averages 7.5 PPG and is shooting a team-high 52.2 % from the field. Tremie is averaging a team-high 35.8 minutes per game and has three double-digit scoring games while Jones has done so four times in five games.
A link to the Ladies' complete 2021-22 schedule can be found here: https://www.gocentenary.com/sports/wbkb/2021-22/schedule
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